jheriko

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by jheriko 10y ago
some of the information here is a bit wrong. the idea that const is weaker than parameter is true, but not for the reasons given. any function taking a float, int etc. in C++ can also take a const float or const int. its also unfair to sugg
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by jheriko 10y ago
lol. good joke there.
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by jheriko 10y ago
i'm thinking they grossly overestimate the problem of cracking a 1024-bit prime... based on my dabbling in that area its certainly possible for a network of machines to do it, and with modern gpus and good number implementations on the
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by jheriko 10y ago
Yes. I know some. You got to pick your battles carefully and really produce though...
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by jheriko 10y ago
this website is terrible. it tries to sell me the product, but neglects to mention what it does.
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by jheriko 10y ago
> Git is used to get the current commit hash. that seems a bit of a problem for every product not using git (which is still a lot, and whoever said git was the final solution anyway?)
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by jheriko 10y ago
As much as this is mostly true, its not always true... I've met at least 3 developers in my career i consider to write very good code, often better than my own... and a small handful i consider 'not-shit' and 'employable
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by jheriko 10y ago
i'm pretty sure that if you can't learn for yourself for free by using the internet (or even libraries and help files etc. like i did) your already starting on the wrong foot. having the ability to solve that problem for yourself
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by jheriko 10y ago
jesus wept ;)
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by jheriko 10y ago
its an interesting exercise for learning but the code style is awful. freel instead of freelist? ffs. abbreviating memory to mem is enough of a mistake in the standard library without going further to m like malloc does and some of the exam
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by jheriko 10y ago
lol. explifying the apple design itself - a beautiful, but less practical embossed white cover.
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by jheriko 10y ago
fair enough, but its a different metric of success. :)
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by jheriko 10y ago
> http://metro.co.uk/ if you use public transport regularly you would have seen it. its probably the mostly widely read paper in the london area together with the evening standard. both are free, and most people don&#x27
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by jheriko 10y ago
i've seen virtuals completely removed and inlined by gcc when there is enough information for it to do that, and a simple enough use case... probably other compilers are similar.
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by jheriko 10y ago
sometimes not even that. it might just update a single register and write nothing to cache or memory... and that cost might be hidden by out-of-order execution and the parallelism of different units on the CPU, making it effectively zero-co
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by jheriko 10y ago
i don't think we need to 'think of' it as such... this is precisely what it is. ... and don't forget its not just the bus that is unreliable, but the data store too. :)
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by jheriko 10y ago
i'm curious where this information comes from. a lot of it jars heavily against personal experience and measurements i can do for myself. the idea that floating point division is that much more expensive than multiplication for instanc
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by jheriko 10y ago
train rags like metro mainly. they are not good quality sources, but they have very wide readership.
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by jheriko 10y ago
its kind of an interesting article, but the thing that snagged me and wouldn't leave my mind was this: > when U.S. aircraft mistakenly killed about 80 Syrian troops. you mean, it fell apart because of america and not russia like the
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by jheriko 10y ago
i'm hoping its real... but all that time and all the hype with no substance is confidence shaking. i mean, why would you not allay the obvious fears of investors and potential customers? there are also the deep technical problems which
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by jheriko 10y ago
for really big numbers there are the generalisations of karatsuba and toom-cook for higher numbers of splits, and beyond that there are the FFT multiplication methods which i believe are the fastest general case methods for very large numbe
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by jheriko 10y ago
be careful, tesla is not successful as a car company yet, and its not in good shape to become one either. one day it might be, and more generally i do hope that we see more progress in the electric car world... but for now tesla only turns
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by jheriko 10y ago
i still think there is a much bigger problem in simply getting the thing through the red tape necessary too... even if it was useful, it would be a real struggle to be allowed to operate at all imo...
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by jheriko 10y ago
i never really enjoyed that noise personally... i could see the nostalgia element, but it always seemed out of place coming out of a modern, slick looking piece of hardware. :)
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by jheriko 10y ago
this is poor form from amazon, but this rattles the cage of the bees in the bonnet of my bugbear because of the subject matter of apple proprietary standard cables why doesn't apple just use a generic standard? its in the best interest
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by jheriko 10y ago
there is an interesting, but quite old, paper here from the spore guys http://chrishecker.com/images/c/cb/Sporeanim-siggraph08.pdf
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by jheriko 10y ago
yeah, i think this was a mistake made under obvious pressure. you are right about a lot of the claims seeming to be straight up BS, but it was all understandable imo. people had unrealistic expectations because the devs didn't take car
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by jheriko 10y ago
I guess we must all love getting abusive ads with our content then... lesson learned
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by jheriko 10y ago
What about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew? Can definitely be handled /somehow/ with native code - but I'd bet it gets even more interesting then... you would need to decouple the map from assumptions about modifiers I t
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by jheriko 10y ago
I got spam trying to sell me uber when I visit on my phone. No thank you TechCrunch... shame on you

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